- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:51:14 -0400
- To: John Packel <jpackel@yahoo.com>
- CC: Web Payments CG <public-webpayments@w3.org>
On 07/31/2014 03:11 PM, John Packel wrote: > Not a fork but a new project/company (non-profit, apparently). McCaleb > was a founder of Ripple's precursor and then left after a dispute with > the other founders. Several press stories about it last year. If it's not a fork, then why are all the main contributors to Ripple the main contributors to Stellar? Look at the frequency and magnitude of commits by author between stellard and rippled: https://github.com/stellar/stellard/graphs/contributors https://github.com/ripple/rippled/graphs/contributors I get that the code base is now managed by a non-profit and that the disbursement model is different than Ripple, but other than that, it looks like it's basically the Ripple protocol (even most of the codebase is shared). >From where I sit, and this is just conjecture again, it looks like Jed (or this new organization) is trying to resolve the long-standing "private entities own a significant amount of the pre-mined currency" criticism. -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: High-Stakes Credentials and Web Login http://manu.sporny.org/2014/identity-credentials/
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